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Can anyone tell me what the purpose of grooved pavement is? I really don't like riding on it. Anyone have any ideas on how to ride on extended stretches of it?

To provide a place for the rain to run off and to allow for better traction .
Regards, Wizzard

Depends what type of grooves you're talking about. Before laying down asphault the roads will be grated to make sure that the roads don't continuously rise everytime a new layer is put on top.

For this the only thing you can do is squeeze the tank with your knees and let the handlbars jerk back on forth a little bit. Relaxed grip is the key if you right it you'll just make it worse.

They also put in grooves along the sides of highways and prior to intersections on the highway. These are to wake you up if you start to drift over to the side of the road, OR they wake you up before you roll through a stop sign.

Is this type of pavement usually used for high rain areas? I live in Albuquerque, NM, not exactly a rainforest. For some reason, the local road department likes using miles and miles of that stuff.

if you have tires that have a center groove in the middle that goes all the way around tire when they wear out get tires with a discontinuous center groove pattern.helps a bunch.

A little off topic but for riding groved pavement wider tires are better. It used to be much more scary in the '80s on bias ply skinny tires. The first set of radials that I had was a revelation.